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...being experimentally fed with cobalt and nickel salts. Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples through the plant life eaten directly or indirectly (through herbivorous animals). Example: In Switzerland where iodine is rare, goitre is common. Feeblemindedness and dwarfism are therefore frequent. The recommendation of Dean Jacob G. Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture was that agriculturists go still further in seeking what proper elements their soil lacks and intelligently supply the deficiency in fertilizers...
Growth. After similar experiments on rats, Dr. Philip E. Smith and Professor Herbert M. Evans of the University of California reported that dwarfism and gigantism result from the abnormally less or great activity of the hypophysis, the small ductless gland below the brain...
Mental Deficiency. Conditions of mental retardation, delinquency, dwarfism, gigantism and other defects, were definitely improved by glandular therapy under the oversight of Dr. Burtis B. Breese, Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, and Dr. Louis Lurie, Director of the Psychopathic Institute of the Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati. Eight children were shown as exhibits. They suffered from deficiency in the pituitary glands, were treated by pituitary extracts. One lad of seven, apparently hopelessly feebleminded, had advanced four school grades in three years. Others, dwarfs and giants, were made to develop properly...